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Dinner for 6 Persons. December

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pheasant work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 131 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons. December

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the Brill and serve with shrimp sauce.

  2. Roast the capon and serve with Orocoli and Bechamel sauce.

  3. Roast the fillet of beef and serve with Poivrade sauce.

  4. Make a puree of pheasant and top with poached eggs.

  5. Prepare scallops of sweetbreads and serve with Soubise sauce.

  6. Roast the partridges.

  7. Make an omelette with fine herbs.

  8. Prepare lemon pudding and serve.

  9. Make Blanc-manger and serve in glasses.

  10. Prepare the Cod with cream sauce.

  11. Roast the pheasant.

  12. Boil the leg of pork and serve.

  13. Make Bianquette of fowl and garnish with scallops of beef and oysters.

  14. Prepare potato croquettes.

  15. Roast the snipes.

  16. Make spinach and top with poached eggs.

  17. Prepare plum pudding.

  18. Make almond cakes and serve with Chantilly cream.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Beef + pheasanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Shrimp + scalloptop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Sauce + scalloptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Fish + shrimptop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Fish + beeftop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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